PARK HOTEL lends.. HOTEL BAKER, lower priced, good. Five cabin nml apmt. camps. Free camp space, also
cabins, 20 mi. west at Gage; camp space at Wilnu. Inf._
Chamber of Commerce.
CONTINENTAL DIVIDE. 32.5 mi. west of Demiug;
27.0	mi. east of Lordsburg. Elevation -I,OS! ft. East, the water goes to the Atlantic; west, to the Pacific.
"LORDSBURG. A railroad division point. Lead, copper and silver mines in the surrounding country. HOTEL HIDALGO, new, all rins. with bath. 1IOLLEN, moderate prices. Three cabin camps.
GRANITE GAP. Elevation 4,100 ft. West of Lordsburg 2S mi., east of Rodeo 20 mi. Cut thru granite mountains that rise in beauty out of the desert. The ocatilln, the spindling cactus of the arid, rocky places, is seen in this section; its flowers in spring a scarlet flame and one of the mystic beauties of the desert.
RODEO. A railroad station village. Mining and ranch interests around. Country hotel. Camp space. Cabin camp, $1.00 and $1.50.
NEW MEXICQ-ARIZONA STATE LINE
2 nil. West of Rodeo
ARIZONA—501 MILES
Road Conditions
The rond across Arizona is well built and well maintained; gravel prevails. Paving is being extended.
Description of Country
The scenery thru the enstern part is varied and Interesting— majestic mountains and rich mining districts; deserts that attract by their varied cacti growths and deserts turned to green fields by irrigation. West of Buckeye dry sands and a drab country are traveled to Yuma but smnll hotels, auto service, camp sites and cabin camps have developed along the way. The people are hospitable. The drive is an interesting experience.
Arizona Is but 10 yrs. old as a state. Its Industry, mining, agriculture, education, road and city building are examples of American enterprise. Numerous ranch resorts are in the mountains and valleys. In summer the elevation cools the temperature. In winter southern sunshine instcud of snow and ice.
Old History
The Santa Cruz Valley—Tucson, Nogales, and into Mexico— was one of the great seats of mission and colonizing effort by Vni^IHI u. s'. Numerous missions were in that territory. Some still remain in Mexico south of Nogales. The beginning in Arizona was in 1GD2. The Mission San Xavier del Bac, 9 ml. south of Tucson, was apparently founded in 1700. The building, uluch still stands and functions as a church, restored after years of disaster and neglect, was one of the finest structures erected by the padres in the New World. Prom the Santa Cruz >ullej mission works were extended across Arizona to Yuma, down the Gila ^ alley of the Old Spanish Trail of today. From i °,^° U;.e exI»edition started that founded San Frnn-®	'	■l,,e trreat mission chain along the California
coast had been started in 1769 at San Diego. n.J” Arizona, New Mexico and Northwest Texas country 42	ml,ll,R	«,ri,l<ely	expedition	spent three years. 1510—
Quiviru^ hinK f°r the Citics of Go,tl nml lh° lnnd of th° Gran
DOUGLAS. A thoroly modern city, the smelting center or the copper mines of the Phelps-Dodge and the Calumet tSco^iesat Bisbee. The monthly production : '	lbs.	Near	is	the Chirieahua National Monument
in the Coronado National Forest where Nature and her genu have fashioned fantastic figures in the rocks. Ranch camps and resorts in the mountains. Across the Mexican order fence is Agua Prieta with a pleasant welcome to the traveler. HOTEL GADSDEN. opens spring 1029: fill inis, with hath. Hotels PALOMAR and WINTON, lower puceci, good. Good cabin camps. Inf.—Chamber of Com-
BISBEE. Phelps-Dodge and the Calumet & Arizona copper mines; three of the greatest in the country. Production reaobes $57,000,000 monthly. Bisbee is built in a canyon with the bouses over one another, clinging to the canyon walls; a never-to-be-forgotten picture. The Warren District around these mines including Bisbee embraces over 15 000 people. The crowded highway thru the crooked eauvon is essentially the city of Bisbee. Mountain spring water at Bisbee. Cattle and goat ranches in the mountains and vailevs, mountain and ranch resorts for a stop-over. COPPER‘QUEEN HOTEL leads. GOLDEN HOTEL upstairs, good rms. Cabin camps. Free camp at Lowell, 1 mi. east. Inf.—Chamber of Commerce.
BISBEE SUMMIT 3 mi. west of Bisbee. G.030 ft. highest point on the Old Spanish Trail. The highway here is a beautiful piece of engineering, easily driven, while the mountain peaks and canyons are impressive pictures.
Three other OST summits are: S.5 mi. west of I an Horn. Texas. 4.030 ft.—the Continental Divide between Doming and Lordsburg, N. M. 4,584 ft.—7 mi. west of Boulevard, California 4,103 ft.
"TOMBSTONE. Once a turbulent city as men sought the riches in silver buried in the mountains; $40,000,000 were taken from the mines. One pocket produced about $840,000, known today as the Million Dollar Stope. Tombstone now is a mine of interest to men of literature for it was one of the last stands of the Wild West where men fought and schemed and left behind tales now told by gray-bearded men to enrich the history of the Anglo-Saxon conquest of the West.
Mountain spring water at Tombstone. Several country hotels. ARCADE leads. Cabin camp, good. See A. If. Gardner. OST Vice-President for any information about
TUMACACORI -MISSION RUIN. ARIZONA South on (ho Nogales Loop from Tombstono or Tucson Mission San Jos6 tie Tumacacorl, Arizona, 18 ml. north of Nogales. Now preserved as a National Monument. Father Ivlno, a Jesuit Missionary, began his visitations in this Santa Cruz Valley in 1691. When this building was erected is not known.
A group of 16 missions was built below and above Nogales, a group that ranks with the San Antonio, Texas, and the California group in majcctic construction and courageous work. Five of these missions were in the present. Arizona, The missions Tumacacorl; San Xavier del Bnc; San Gabriel doGue-vavl; San Cavctano dc Cnlahasas; and St. Gertrude de 1 ubac. Other missions are believed to have been at Tucson. Many of the churches in Mexico arc still in service, visited from Nogales.
NOGALES—ASTRIDE THE MEXICAN BORDER Nogales Is a modern city of 15.000 people, the border lino fence separating the U.S. and Mexico runs thru a main street. It is (lie gateway to the rich west coast of Mexico. The road from Tombstone* to Nogales Is good, the scenery splendid. I*rom Tucson to Nogales the road is thru the Santa Cruz > alley, passing Tubnc and Tumucncori. The chambers of commerce at Tombstone, Tucson and Nogales have Interesting leaflets.
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